What is history lest anyone think the question meaningless or superfluos, i will take as my text two passages relating respectively to the first and second in carnations of the cambridge modern history. here is acton in his report of october 1896 to the syndics of the cambridge university press on the work which he had undertaken to edit
Jean Bodin's method for the easy comprehension of history,written during a period of civil and religious upheaval in mid-16 th century france,is a renaissance humanist,s formulation of a philosophy of history.the book deals with broad,universa questions of historical interpretation againts a background of the particular problem of the nature of government in france
this colection did not originate with me. two or three years ago,my polish and then my spanish friend decided to colect and translatte the few articles and essays which i had published in the past twenty years on the nature of history.this volume is the final result.if it had not hapened this way, would i have thought of making such a colection myself? that is question i ask myself as i finish …
professeur au college de france ou il occupe la chaire d'histoire de la civilisation moderne, fernand braudel joue dans l'historiographie francaise d'aujourd'hui un role de premier plan.
like so many other books,this too started out as quite another one. some of the thoughts contained in these pages began in my attempts to teach and to erite about american social and cultural history in general and the american frontier in particular. the spesific impetus was an attempt to write an introduce section for a social interpretation of american history i felt i had to provide some t…
when we first planned the volumes for the ford humanities project at pricenton we set as our goal a series of essays that would be contributions to that part of american intelectual history which has to do with humanistic scholarship" the present volume is such a contributions and more to. for it apperas that historical scholarship occupies so central and commanding a position in america today …
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nine distinguished historians have contributed to this symposium.each of them has set forth the reasons,as he undertands them,for cultivating a specialized field of histrical enquiry,and the justification for its recognition as a distinct historical discipline.is is hoped that the book wil iluminate the relationship between some of the major specialities among which the historical world is now …